2009 High Point Scoring Rules and Exceptions, PHRF of the Chesapeake, Inc.

1. To qualify for CBYRA High Point awards in any PHRF class, an individual must:
    a. Be a member of CBYRA and ,
    b. Be affiliated with a CBYRA Member Club and,
    c. Have a 2009 PHRF of the Chesapeake, Inc., Valid Certificate and, 
    d. Have a number listed in the CBYRA roster of sail numbers that is a unique USSA sail number, a number assigned by a National governing body, a unique One Design class number of a recognized ISAF class, or a unique One Design class number as maintained by the class association of a recognized CBYRA One Design class.

2. PHRF High Point is recorded on a Bay wide basis using class codes as denoted in the following table.   Note that the class codes are not the same as the code flag shown in the class splits.   The class codes must be included with the race results reported to CBYRA for proper recording of high point scores.   For high point scoring in PHRF A only, region 3 is divided into three sub-regions as follows:
        3AW - Annapolis, West River
        3SE - Solomons, Eastern Shore, and St. Mary's River
        3PR - Potomac River west of St. Mary's River

PHRF Non-Spinnaker is recorded as PHRF N, North and as PHRF N, South.    Region 4 shall be divided into sub-regions, North and South, for both Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker sections.
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                    PHRF CLASSES FOR HIGH POINT SCORING

3.    For all sections, both Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker, each yacht/owner must declare with his/her application for CBYRA membership or renewal, a Region for High Point, which region shall be fixed for the season.  A yacht/owner from region 3AW may not declare either region 3SE, or 3PR as their declared region.  If no region is declared, the region in which the primary yacht club is located shall be designated as the declared region.  Without regard for region, the results for each event shall be scored and totaled on a Bay wide basis for each section.  The highest scored yacht/owner for each section, in the resulting overall standings, shall be declared the overall winner in his/her section.  The highest scored yacht/owner in each Region in his/her overall section standing shall be declared the regional winner.

4. Qualification for High Point awards:
       a. .    Spinnaker sections  - To be considered for any High Point award, a yacht/owner must have been scored in at least five (5) sanctioned events that started or finished in his/her declared region.   A race that transits multiple regions may be scored as a home qualifying event in any of the transited regions.
        b. Non-Spinnaker sections  - To be considered for any High Point award, a yacht/owner must have been scored in at least five (5) sanctioned events in Regions 1, 2, or 3 for PHRF N North, or at least five (5) sanctioned events in Region 4 for PHRF N South.
        c.   Local clubs may schedule, through CBYRA, multiple race events in a single day and each event may carry a separate CBYRA race number.
       d. All Annapolis, Northern Bay, Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge, or Southern Bay Race Week events will be considered as wild card races for boats from “declared regions” outside of the regatta venue region, and will be scored as home region events for all boats only after that boat from “declared regions” outside of the regatta venue region, has qualified in it’s declared region.   The wild card races shall be scored on a daily basis.        e.   In the event that less than five (5) qualified races occur in a boats declared region, that boat may qualify by being scored in at least fifty (50%) percent of the declared regions races.   Boats whose home region is either region I, or region II, may use events from either region I, or region II, as qualifying events for high point scoring.

5.  One event may be discarded from the records in which a boat has been recorded for at least nine (9) events.  The race dropped may be one in which the yacht was scored as ‘DSQ’ by the Race Committee unless the DSQ was for “significant damage” or the race was scored as DNE (Disqualified, Non-Excludable).  The competitor shall notify the High Point Scorer by no later than November 1^st of the year as to which race they wish to discard.  In the event no notification is received, no races will be discarded.   When a boat is scored as DNS or DNC, the race will not count as a race started.”

6.    An event does not contribute to the record for High Point awards if the first yacht to finish averages less than 2.0 knots over the course.

 7.   An event does not contribute to the record for High Point awards if the length of the race course is less than four (4) nautical miles.   An event consisting of multiple races with a total distance greater than four (4) nautical miles satisfies this requirement.

 8.   An event does not contribute to the competitors’ record for High Point awards if there are less than three (3) boats in their class entered and competing in the race.  If there are fewer than three competitors in a class, the organizing club may group several classes into a single start and satisfy this requirement.  In this case each competitor will receive the race score as though all other competitors were in their class.

9. Bonus Points for the length of the course(s) in an event shall be available as follows:

6.0 to 19.9 miles =        0 points
20.0 to 43.9 miles =      5 points
44.0 to 99.9 miles =     10 points
100.0 to 149.9 miles = 12 points
150.0 to 199.9 miles = 14 points
200.0 and over miles = 16 points

Total bonus points are limited to thirty (30). If any yacht/owner accumulates more than thirty (30) bonus points, the amount above 30 would be subtracted from both the numerator and denominator of the High Point scoring formula.

10.   The PHRF scorer will compute the scores of all PHRF competitors in each class with the following formula: 

where “Points Earned” are one point for starting,  one point for finishing and one point for every boat beaten.